Choosing to lead
Subtitle: understanding Congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs
By: Ralph G. Carter and James M. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, James M., 1964-
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822344902; 9780822345039
Subjects: Government executives -- United States; Political entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Political entrepreneurship -- United States -- History -- 21st century; United States -- Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the White House : bringing Congress into the foreign policy picture; title: From problem to policy : a theory of Congressional foreign policy entrepreneurship; title: Surveying the landscape : Congressional foreign policy entrepreneurs since World War II; title: The rising tide : entrepreneurship in the Cold War consensus period, 1946/1967; title: Players in the game : entrepreneurship in the cold war dissensus period, 1968/1989; title: Contending with the thaw : entrepreneurship in the post/Cold War period, 1990/2000; title: After 9/11 : entrepreneurs into the 21st century; title: Part of the landscape : conclusions on the entrepreneur effect.